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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the floor in the hall after the tumble-barrel room?

2. What does Ambrose know he will teach his son?

3. What does the narrator say alternates back and forth in a narrative?

4. What does the matchbook cover Ambrose’s father has advertise?

5. What is the usual reward for the first person to see the towers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ambrose do because he is so nervous about going in the Funhouse with Magda and what does the ticket woman say to Magda?

2. What is a traditional game the family plays when approaching the midway point, and what is the prize for the winner?

3. What does Ambrose remember about playing the game 'Niggers and Masters' with Peter and Magda when they were younger?

4. What does Ambrose do after Magda and Peter leave the Funhouse?

5. What has Ambrose realized about winning the traditional game, and at what age does he understand this tactic?

6. What does Ambrose’s mother give the three teenagers when they reach the boardwalk, and what does she say to them and why?

7. What does Magda ask Ambrose about concerning his foot, and what is his reply?

8. What is Ambrose’s father doing while Ambrose is in the Funhouse?

9. What does the narrator say a Freitag’s Triangle is?

10. Where does Ambrose go after dinner? What is he looking for and what does he see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the car ride Ambrose remembers a time when, three years previously, Peter, Magda and himself played Niggers and Masters.

Discuss how the game relates to the era and place in which this story takes place. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Lost in the Funhouse is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Ambrose and his narrator alter ego are both marked by their exceptionally keen awareness of self.

Discuss the ways in which Ambrose demonstrates an awareness of himself. Questions to consider might be: How does he perceive himself? How does he see himself in relationship to others? How does he think others see him? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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